Noble Sarah La Malade

Coral Branch

29 June 2019 at Storvik Novice and Unbelt Tournament in Our Barony of Storvik

I completed this scroll for Noble Sarah in the 24 hours before the event. It was assigned as a backlog, but I was able to complete it in a day. Both people are Sarah in their garb. They also LOVE opossums.

Calligraphy & Illumination

K ValravnRoxbury MillAtlantia

Prose

"Let all know that We, Christoph and Adelhait, King and Queen of Atlantia, love the beauty of Coral. Coral takes many forms and colors, a rainbow that enriches the populace. Like the Coral, Sarah la Malade has enhanced their Shire in diverse ways, through sewing, music, poetry, and research. Their work is known and admired; the hands that perform the work are beloved. Thus do We see fit to induct Sarah into Our Order of the Coral Branch. So too do We raise them to the ranks of nobility and Award Arms, directing Noble Sarah to consult with Our heralds in the creation of arms that befit them alone. Done by Our hand this day, June 29, A.S. LIV, being 2019 in modern reckoning, at Storvik Novice in the Barony of Storvik."
Alias ElaLady Elenor de La RochelleRoxbury MillAtlantia

Materials

Manuscript Fountain Pen, fine nib, & Ink for CalligraphyWindsor & Newton GouacheFine Tec Gold GouacheNatural color 8.5"x11" Pergamenata

Paper Size

8.5" x 11"

Start Date

28 June 2019

Completion Date

29 June 2019

Script

Bâtarde

Source Image

https://www.wdl.org/en/item/19476/view/1/13/

Progress

Source

Book of HoursThis 15th century Book of Hours belonged to Victor Emmanuel II, king of Sardinia from 1849 to 1861 and the first king of united Italy from 1861 until his death in 1878. According to the scholar Robert Amiet, the manuscript is, from the liturgical point of view, a composite work, made by a copyist who had a variety of versions of Books of Hours at his disposal. The daily calendar clearly had a Parisian origin, while the litanies, the Hours of the Virgin, and the Hours of the Dead were inspired by the illuminated manuscripts produced at the Abbey of Citeaux. The manuscript was made for a noble Burgundian family, that of Guillaume de Trestondans (died 1475), whose coat of arms is found on the bottom margin of folio 29 recto. The coat of arms of the family of Guillaume’s wife, Marie de Baissey, is found at folio 82 verso, while folio 166 verso preserves the coat of arms of his mother, Henriette de Saint-Seine. The work contains two mottos, which most likely are related to the Trestondans family: “Plus panser que dire” (Better to think than to speak) at folios 21 verso and 23 recto, and “Tousiours ie danse” (I always dance) at folio 34 recto. The manuscript was bought by the Royal Library of Turin in 1843 for 700 lire. This is known from the draft of a letter, preserved in the Promis Archive of the library, from Domenico Promis to Carlo Alberto I (1798–1849), king of Sardinia, duke of Savoy, and father of Victor Emmanuel II, regarding a proposal to sell the manuscript to the royal library.